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I didn't argue he hasn't built a bit of a wall. I argued he hasn't kept his campaign promise to build a whole wall. which he hasn't. I don't know how you can argue he has when the extension is a lot smaller than the existing wall. iirc only a tiny amount of the wall built under trump's administration was actually new wall, and most of it replacement for the original one, could be wrong on that last part though.
obamacare hasn't been repealed as promised.
drain the swamp pretty clearly was viewed as tackling the corruption in government. = completely failed to do this.
the economy has been strong ofc. that however has nothing to do with the failure to keep his campaign promise by investing in the crumbling american infrastructure that severely reduces economic growth, which you'd think would be an incentive for him.
ofc locking Hillary up was a platitude but his failure to press her or advance investigation into her alleged activity for lack of a better word is still a broken promise for some of his base.
I don't care if he releases tax returns or not. but the fact remains he promised to do so and has failed to do so.
he didn't balance the debt but it has increased by an unprecedented amount. ofc covid played a giant part but it's going to have big consequences in the coming years. and this isn't to say democrats wouldn't of increased it by more. but it still remains an decent attack vector for dems.
I get the feeling you think I'm taking personal sides and that couldn't be further from the truth. many of his promises even the platitudes were taken seriously by a significant %'age of his base. but the fact of the matter is this could and likely will be used against trump and could potentially resonate negatively for trump. that is all, it might not have a major effect but in conjunction with other factors it is worth keeping in mind for betting purposes (why we are all((mostly)) here for).
trump still has a giant problem on his hands in terms of how he can actually win undecided/dem voters over. he seems largely to be putting most of his eggs in one basket expecting biden to completely capitulate. that's a distinct possibility ofc but it's risky, if biden doesn't and has ok performances in the debates then trump might be in real trouble, because trump has relatively few positives that he personally can put out there to win ppl over currently. I just watched (ok half watched) biden's speech at the convention that just finished and he seemed to do fine, no gaffe's or major stumbles, seemed cognizant (for his own standards). yeah yeah i know he's reading of a teleprompter, but it seems at the least that his condition might be slightly exaggerated at times despite still being very obvious.
"The people that don’t like Trump but still vote for him is because they believe he is a better choice than the other options (Biden here and Hillary in 2016). The president is decided not by which president people love the most but by what president the voting public hates the least"
your contradicting yourself here. trump is hated magnitudes of order more than biden. and by your own logic trump is fucked.
Lol nice, well I’m not changing your mind so bettem hard, all good.
Lol absolutely not contradicting myself. The people that hate Trump whine and bitch the loudest but they are not the majority. Lol if he was so hated by the masses he wouldn’t have won a Republican Primary and Presidential Election.
A 2nd grader can read, not a big deal on the speech and I’m sure he rehearsed it a ton of times. Oddly enough I heard it was the shortest speech by a presidential contender on a podcast which is interesting. I’m still betting he’s gonna get absolutely destroyed in the debates.